This World & Nearer Ones
19 Public Art Commissions
on Govenors Island, NYC
Opening June 27, 2009




Creative Time by the numbers

Creative Time has been producing public art for 35 years

Creative Time has presented over 300 projects, including work by more than 1,400 artists

Which means that Creative Time presents an average of 1 artwork every 9 days

Creative Time has worked in all 5 boroughs of New York City, and presented projects in 12 states nationally in the last 2 years

Creative Time’s ongoing projects in the last 2 years have attracted an average of 1,500 visitors a day

Creativetime.org has more than 1,000 visitors per day

The search query “Creative Time” yields 203,000 results on Google

Creative Time has an annual operating budget of over 2 million dollars

Creative Time has 25 board members, more than 200 members, and over 500 individual donors and organizations that funds its projects every year

Since 2007, Creative Time has opened over 100,000 square feet of previously inaccessible urban space to the public

This World & Nearer Ones will open 5 Governors Island buildings not regularly open to the public.



MEDIA CONTACT: Nicholas Weist, nickw@creativetime.org